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Release Date: 11 April 2025
Label: Between The Lines
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0608917125429
Genres: Jazz
Description
Guitarist Christy Doran and pianist Izumi Kimura, both on their own musical paths for many years, had only met for the first time a few weeks before these recordings. Doran had recently returned to his old homeland for a three-month stay to "refresh his roots". These included musical encounters such as with Kimura, but also an in-depth study of Irish musical traditions.
"Glacial Voyage" is the result of a freely improvised coexistence. This was only preceded by a meeting playing music to get to know each other. Izumi Kimura, at home in Ireland for around three decades, had heard Christy Doran at a concert with Irish bassist Ronan Guilfoyle and US drummer Gerry Hemingway and asked the experienced guitarist then and there if he was interested in a duo encounter. Doran was already familiar with Kimura's recordings, including the video document of a concert by the pianist with Hemingway and the English bassist and composer legend Barry Guy. The first musical exchange between the two felt so good that they immediately arranged a studio production.
The titles of the tracks signal a common thread: Sea and rugged coastline, the tides, and the interplay of the elements: the fascination of the indomitable forces that are an eternal inspiration. In fact, these titles were only chosen later. Some of them,e.g., "Belmullet", "Blacksod Lighthouse", etc., are places and points in County Mayo on Ireland's northwest coast. Christy Doran spent a whole month there during his longer stay in Ireland, far from the greater region around Dublin. Although they didn't intend for the improvisations to reflect all this, the music and titles fit together in an almost striking way to form a coherent whole that breathes complete freedom on one hand and seems to have a kind of "Irish soul" at its core on the other hand.
Tracklisting
Ralph Alessi & Ravi Coltrane
Van der Kuip/Büsing/Attard
Christy Doran; Izumi Kimura
Scott Fields String Feartet
Philipp Gerschlauer, Gebhard Ullmann
Koj/Louis Sclavis
Peter Van Huffel's Gorilla Mask
Gebhard Ullmann Basement Research
Ivo Perelman & Matthew Shipp String Trio
uroboro
TRILOK GURTU
B?la Fleck, Edmar Casta?eda, Antonio S?nchez
SHOLTO, Abase & Dave Bardon
Dee Dee Bridgewater & Bill Charlap
Lea Maria Fries
Danny Widdicombe & Trichotomy
